Ok my host closed my account due to an exceeded visitors limit. And I have an old backup which I wanted to use to backup my forums. I'm sorry if this has been answered, but I'm a little upset with this and I'm not in the right mood to search.
And is it even possible to change hosts with a backup?
I was using MyBB 1.4.6 with tons of plugins and several themes.
Regards, faviouz.
All you really need is the database backup - files, plugins, and themes can be replaced, a backup can't.
Reinstall 1.4.6, then in phpMyAdmin, drop all of the empty tables, and import your backup. You'll at least have most of your stuff back then.
So the backup will replace my plugins? o_o
Not the files, but it'll have the information that the plugin added to the database. You'll need to upload the files again but the actual information should still be there.
hmm so if I reupload MyPlaza I'll still have the settings as before?
You should do, yeah... actually what's just occurred to me is that if you upload the plugins after you import the backup, they'll show as being deactivated, which isn't good... OK, upload all the plugins first, and when they're all activated, then drop the newer tables and import your backup.
Sorry for necroposting, but didn't feel like posting a new thread.
Themes will be restored?
@Matt: what do you mean by "drop all of the empty tables" (
from this post)? Can you provide me a little "more detailed" step-by-step guide (just the steps lol) on backing my forums up to a different host?
Regards.
The templates for the themes will be restored, yeah, the CSS is in the files.
In phpMyAdmin, once you've installed, you'll have lots of empty tables that the installer just created, and you need to get rid of them. There's a link to select all the tables, and then from the drop down menu after the list of tables, there's an option to Drop the tables. Once you've done that, you can import your database.
You can backup the whole of your public_html database and upload it via cPanel to your new host, without problems.
You'll just need to edit the cookie settings and the config.php file.
Import the database where? In the Admin CP?
Sorry, this should be very easy.. I just don't feel like installing a board yet for searching that, and I haven't looked at the database "features" that much.